Vampire bats made to run on treadmills in a lab reveal ... in their protein-rich blood meals – a feat seen only in a few species of blood-feeding insects. This is peculiar since in most animals ...

The treatment is specific for the vampire bat; no other species is affected, and the anticoagulant does not appear to hurt the livestock even when injected directly into the stomach. At the present ...

Hylomys macarong may look innocuous, but its name macarong means vampire in Vietnamese ... kingstonae was a new species in 2023. It isn’t known where the diminutive bat, which weighs between ...

Thus in both ecological and evolutionary terms, other members of this bat’s own species are its greatest competitors. So why would a vampire bat share its meal of blood? The answer is reciprocity.

Bats in the noctilionoid group, like Darwin’s finches, have evolved an impressive variety of jaw and tooth adaptations to ...

One in five mammal species is a bat. Some bats eat fruit, some pollinate flowers, others catch fish out of the water, and of course there’s the notorious vampire bat, which feeds on blood. But most ...

Bats are an iconic symbol of Halloween and vampire bats in particular have earned themselves ... Bats are the only mammals capable of powered flight and there are over 1,100 species of these winged ...